The New South Welshman is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a New South Welshman and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”

>In the absence of anything other than anecdotal evidence to the contrary, it seems clear that the Metropolitan Police Boxes like the TARDIS were only ever made from pre-cast concrete, thus rendering the description of the time machine's disguise as a 'wooden box' to be inaccurate.

>A: Because of my fanzine. The one I give out at the Tavern. I keep taking the piss out of Kate Orman, so in Shagger Cornell's world that means I hate women. It's the way things work on his planet. All right, let's get down to basics here. We're talking about a man who spends his life acting like a caring, sharing new man just so he can get into the pants of as many women as possible. And this isn't just me being bitter, some of Paul's own friends told me this about him even before I'd met the man. In a court of law, the character witnesses would be lined up around the building three-deep. And I'm a misogynist for having a go at Kate Orman. This is getting really perosnal now, isn't it? Maybe we should go back to focusing on Krotons.

>I’ve tried to be nice to him. I've always tried. But if he can't shag you, he's just not interested. The only sure-fire way to get on that man's good side is by having XX chromosomes. He's never had any patience with me at all. That was the really funny thing about that interview he did, where he started slagging me off. He said the politics in INTERFERENCE reminded him of a "seventeen-year-old virgin". It was just so telling, because what he's actually saying there, when it comes down to it, is: "I'm wiser than you are because I've shagged more birds." I mean, fair enough, he probably has had sex with more people than I have.

In no particular order - any of the Doctors or companions, Tewwence Dicks, Charles Dance, John Cleese (or any of the Pythons), Scott Wilson, David Jason although he might very well be a n0nce so this one can miss it, Liam Neeson and Kyle MacLachlan

does it occur to you that using a trip does not positively benefit discussion? We don't need to know who you are, and in you case you actually have a better chance of being treated normally if you stop drawing attention to yourself

A consensus has been reached in the Discord. For those who don't go on it, I will use this trip for a few days and go anon for a few days. Then, I will compare people's reactions, and choose which one I will go with.

The whole point of an anonymous discussion board is that you don't have preconceived expectations for a post based on reputation. All posts are taken as individual, and not biased by reputation.

Your name has far too much baggage for any opinions associated with it to be taken seriously. You are doing yourself a massive detriment by believing that we need to know which posts come from you.

You are just the latest in a long line of newfags who come here and do not understand imageboard culture. 9/10 times these people leave because they simply aren't compatible. The other 1/10 go anonymous.

And what if I refuse? What happens then? Besides the fact that you are derailing this thread on purpose to make a point, and giving my name baggage so there is a reason to complain about me having baggage, what will happen if I don't leave? What will happen if I don't go anon?

You will confirm to everyone that you do not understand /who/ and are a hostile element that will never fit in. Your presence will be met with countless "fuck off hunter" posts and nobody will ever be willing to discuss anything with you. This does not work in your favour.

I did not give your name baggage, that baggage already existed purely because of your own actions.

Note that I only said you will be a hostile element if you refuse to take off the trip. You have every capability of fixing things right now if you let go of your pride and stop caring about having an identity among an anonymous userbase

It is well known that Immigrant is naive and kind to a flaw. He is not an “authority figure in the community”, the notion of such a thing existing is laughable and only further proves that you need to lurk more before ever considering posting with an identity.

It’s just embarrassing at this point, really. You keep digging yourself deeper and deeper into a hole when everything could be resolved by taking off the trip and stopping drawing attention to yourself.

I understand. I trip not because I want authority or something, but because I want to do the same: contribute. I just want you guys to understand that my life has been getting so much better since I found out about /who/. Thank you, everyone.

trivialising the issue in such an obnoxious manner only proves you don't understand the situation.

Literally why the fuck did you make this post? People were starting to move onto discussing other things. You weren't the center of attention anymore. Making this post was an objective net negative for you, and accomplished absolutely nothing beneficial.

I bit the bullet and listened to Ravenous (1) on the weekend. All four eps in a row. Listened to half the behind the scenes before technical difficulties with the file struck (I masochistically still try to listen to the behind the scenes track of a boxset whenever I can).

Ravenous 1 is a Doom Coalition boxset. There’s no getting around it. In every manner, the cast and crew behind the boxset, the story material of the boxset, the approach, even the villain, it’s all Doom Coalition. There is precisely zero iteration from the Doom Coalition series, meaningful or otherwise. Doom Coalition followed a very similar structure to Dark Eyes, with the 4x4 16 stories, but had a different creative team, different approach, different companions, different story material, etc. There is exactly none of that here. I find it genuinely bizarre how Briggs Finish advertise Ravenous with the exact same talking points they advertised Doom Coalition, right down to the balance between standalone and arc episodes. Doom Coalition 4 ended on a cliffhanger, and Ravenous 1/Doom Coalition 5 resolves that cliffhanger, continuing that story directly. This isn’t like how Dark Eyes continued off the ending of the Eighth Doctor Adventures Series 4, where although the plot followed on directly, the format and approach and creative side was massively changed. There is no change here.

What that means is if you liked Doom Coalition, you will like this, and if you disliked Doom Coalition, you will continue to dislike this. There are two Dorney stories and two Fitton stories; you know what you’re getting into here. The first Dorney story deals with baggage from Doom Coalition before becoming a sort of quasi-prequel to Victory of the Daleks, following the formation of the British-Polish air squadrons. Dorney writes Liv quite well here, and the side characters are done as well as you’d expect from Dorney, but it’s all fairly thin and very much second-tier Dorney. The structure of this sort, and the boxset in general, reminds me of a video game in that there’s clearly a very pressing “quest” that needs doing (rescuing a certain someone), but there are manifestly contrived reasons to give the main characters time to stall and do side quests/adventures before it. It’s not executed very well and made 8 and Liv seem cold and robotic in a way I don’t think was intended.

The second story is easily the best in the boxset. It’s basically Dorney doing Fargo in space. Nothing to write home about but genuinely an enjoyable story.

The third and fourth stories are a two-parter about the Kandyman. For all the touting of “fixing” Helen’s characterisation, it’s much as it’s ever been. Having another 8/spider story is somewhat amusing in how many time Briggs Finish dips back to bizarrely specific wells. Fitton clearly felt enormously clever making a story like Brave New World, and insufferably references it explicitly every chance he gets. 8’s characterisation regarding his thoughts on Helen is inconsistent in a way that feels like there was insufficient script editing. The setup for the titular Ravenous is so lazy I barely even noticed it. The ending of the two-parter is “same old, same old, just Clara Oswald and the Doctor in the TARDIS” level of “there is absolutely nothing to see here, enjoy the status quo forever”. You might be pleased to know the Kandyman will be a continuing villain throughout Ravenous, not just this first boxset.

What really gets me is that Briggs Finish did a press release for 8’s Time War Vol. 2 set revealing it will feature “the Twelve”, the regenerated form of “the Eleven” (the villain of Doom Coalition and Ravenous). Look, I get the idea of doing boxsets far off in 8’s future while still doing one’s in his “present”; part of the whole idea of doing stories with past Doctors is that audiences tolerate that kind of thing. But when you literally, explicitly use elements that nullify active story elements in those “present” boxsets, it feels like a joke, like there’s absolutely zero point in investing at all. Why should I care about the Eleven fighting 8 when I know exactly what will happen thanks to a press release about a boxset set further in 8’s future at all. What is the point of these “present 8” boxsets besides giving Nicola Walker consistent work, when BF have said 8’s Time War volumes are still far before Night of the Doctor, and they contain so many of the same elements as these boxsets anyway, except with some modicum of dramatic stakes? It’s all just going through the motions, and that is tremendously boring.

There's some villainous entity being held in a glass box at a prison called "the Ravenous", it's some kind of hivemind thing. It doesn't really make much of an appearance. But it continues the Doom Coalition trend of naming the series after villains. I guess they thought "The Eleven and the Kandyman" was too on the nose.

From how he looks on the cover I was expecting a dark and gritty reimagining but honestly he's very similar to his TV persona. Still all based around sweet treats and whatnot. I don't think he was really dark enough to be scary or absurd enough to be funny, but he wasn't executed terribly or anything.

>Director Barnaby Edwards tells us more about the cast for Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter: “It is not a coincidence that the main protagonist (aside from Jenny) in each story is female. I purposely cast it that way, in order to pit our heroine against villains of her own gender. Rather than just inserting Jenny into the well-known Doctor Who world, I wanted to place her in a more interesting – and largely female – universe.”

>>17468 I say this because theoretically, there might be a way in which you could tell unique stories for both of those characters, but I find it hard to believe the nu-BF cookie cutter box set model is ever going to achieve it. We sit and laugh about these releases, Tales of New Earth, The Churchill Years, but we have no idea what's actually going into them and whether or not BF is actually writing interesting new lore rabbitholes into this universe (or just generating an endless production line of drivel).